In Vendaam, a town in the Netherlands, a long track for Hyperloop trains, magnetic levitation trains that can travel up to a thousand kilometers per hour in long low-pressure tubes, has opened for the first tests. It is located inside the European Hyperloop Center, a large center financed in part by the European Union for the development of this type of technology, which would allow long distances to be traveled by train in a short time. The track is a tube with a diameter of 2.5 meters and 420 meters long, one of the longest in Europe for this type of test: it is bifurcated and therefore also allows the lane change test.
We have therefore returned to talking about the Hyperloop with new enthusiasm: above all we are wondering what the implementation times are and when the first trips will be possible. These trains have been talked about since 2012, when they were initially conceived by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Since then, various companies have begun to work on the construction of a means of transport with magnetic levitation, that is, one that exploits the repulsion between electromagnets to “float”, which moves inside tubes at very low pressure, in order to also minimize friction with the ‘air.
Over the years, various technology companies have carried out various tests all over the world, from the Dubai desert to huge warehouses in Europe, but encountered two obstacles above all: the permits to build the necessary infrastructure and the already known technological problems linked to superconductors combined with the fact that the ‘Hyperloop should travel at a very high speed inside a tube in which a near vacuum is maintained.
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